Quotes About Taking Up The Cross

#1. Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.

Pope Francis

#2. Some days taking up your cross feels like putting up with an annoying coworker or a flat tire. And some days taking up your cross feels like what it is - death.

Jared C. Wilson

#3. I let a slow smile cross my face. Blake wanted me to let you know he's not interested.

Meredith Wild

#4. Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

Joseph Campbell

#5. I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

Marisha Pessl

#6. I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

Marcia Cross

#7. Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.

Arthur W. Pink

#8. You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

Ian Frazier

#9. It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.

William Mathews

#10. In taking up another's cross, one must sometimes get crushed by the weight.

Paul Kalanithi

#11. It probably does make it more difficult to enjoy a good laugh at someone who's onstage, seemingly yelling at you. But I'm not yelling at the audience, I'm yelling at the world. It genuinely sucks if people are taking it that way. But I'm not talking to individuals.

David Cross

#12. Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

David Lloyd George

#13. God has a way of taking messed-up situations and flipping them on their heads.'
'Oh yeah? Give me one example.'
'Turning an executioner's cross into a symbol of hope.

Katie Ganshert

#14. As an investment banker, I'm in the cross-flow of information and the changes that are taking place in capital markets.

Euvin Naidoo

#15. I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

Ueli Gegenschatz

#16. Another goal that I have is to learn how to play the ukulele - should be fun - and to stop taking my clothes off for money. But I need money. That is a ridiculous goal. I'm gonna cross that one off. That's stupid.

Kristen Schaal

#17. Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did

Pope Francis

#18. Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?

L.E. Maxwell

#19. My heart's never smiled so hard Baby. Lovin' you is fun.

Easton Corbin

#20. The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.

Charles R. Swindoll

#21. When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

Andrew Sullivan

#22. The view wasn't exactly breath-taking. Kind of boring actually. Unless, of course, you had a rare, strong appreciation for deserts, in which case it was downright mind blowing.

Violet Cross

#23. The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

Rob Bell

#24. But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.

Marc Jacobs

#25. Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.

Pope Francis

#26. Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

John Herschel

#27. We are not saved by denying self, or taking up our cross, or doing anything else, we are saved by simply believing in Jesus.

R.A. Torrey

#28. The sure path to tomorrow was plotted in a manger and paved on a cross. And although this sturdy byway is mine for the taking, I have incessantly chosen lesser paths. And maybe it is time to realize that Christmas is a promise that I can walk through the world and never get lost in the woods.

Craig D. Lounsbrough